An ingenious food app is saving tens of thousands of food items from ending up in the bin - and bringing neighbours together in the process. Almost 50% of all food thrown away in the UK comes from our homes, according to the Love Food Hate Waste campaign. Some seven million tonnes of food and drink end up in the bin from households - but more than half of this could have been eaten. Now an app is helping people with surplus food to connect with people who want to use it. It’s a simple premise: add your leftover food to the free app and someone will contact you asking if they can have it. They’ll then come and collect it and use it for themselves. Alternatively, users are free to...
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